Rivers Cuomo Professions : Musician Born : June 13, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 39 quotes by Rivers Cuomo With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward. Rivers Cuomo steps littles moving I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things. Rivers Cuomo want people thinking The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake. Rivers Cuomo naked cake skills I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal. Rivers Cuomo emo rap interest I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived. Rivers Cuomo differences keys thinking It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years. Rivers Cuomo lessons genius years It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records. Rivers Cuomo records labels band I never feel guilty about liking music. Rivers Cuomo guilty feels I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write. Rivers Cuomo caring writing song If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough." Rivers Cuomo enough want people I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music. Rivers Cuomo new-music studios fighting I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all. Rivers Cuomo enjoy writing thinking The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control. Rivers Cuomo records agreement want Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake. Rivers Cuomo imagination writing song I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever. Rivers Cuomo youth albums listening When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks. Rivers Cuomo rock thought being rock-star Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake. Rivers Cuomo my-life fake imagination life I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study. Rivers Cuomo grow beard friends want I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations. Rivers Cuomo looking me music curiosity I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. Rivers Cuomo look music business people Similar Authors Adam Jones musician Izzy Stradlin musician Bon Scott musician Brad Delp musician Brad Delson musician Brian Eno musician All Authors
